Germany Considers 6cm Knife Ban Amid Stabbing Surge
As the number of knife attacks continues to rapidly grow in Germany, Interior Minister Nancy Faeser has proposed a stricter knife-carrying ban than the one already in place. Critics argue, however, that an even stricter ban will not hinder perpetrators, mostly migrants, from committing heinous crimes, and the state should instead focus its efforts on putting a stop to illegal immigration from Africa and the Middle East.
Germany already has stringent regulations on carrying knives in public, with blades over 12 cm banned except in certain circumstances. However, the ban visibly does not seem to have any effect. This has not deterred Social Democrat interior minister Nancy Faeser from suggesting on Sunday, August 11th that the legal limit for knives carried in public should be shortened to 6 cm.
German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser has said she wants to “further restrict the use of knives in public,” amid a marked rise in knife crime.https://t.co/XeMlxlIBwG
— dpa news agency (@dpa_intl) August 11, 2024
Faeser told the Sunday edition of the German daily Bild that the left-liberal coalition government is aiming to “create a general ban on handling dangerous flick knives.” She said she also wants more police surveillance at train stations.
The interior minister of the southern state of Bavaria, Joachim Herrmann—of the centre-right CSU party—criticised the plan, saying “It is doubtful that further knife bans can solve the problem of knife crime.” The recent stabbing and murder of a police officer in the south-western city of Mannheim, for example, was committed with a knife that was already prohibited under current law, he added.
None of the mainstream politicians are willing to name the real cause of the problem: the influx of illegal migrants from Africa and the Middle East, some of whom are accustomed to ending disputes with physical violence.
As conservative publication Apollo News commented on the issue:
Measures such as prohibition zones or knife bans have so far only been sufficient—if they have been sufficient at all—to combat symptoms. Faeser does not address the causes that lie in migration policy.
As The European Conservative has reported for the past few months, knife-related attacks have spun out of control in Germany, with almost daily news reports about life-endangering attacks being carried out in different parts of the country.
Most recently three separate stabbing incidents happened within 24 hours in the capital, Berlin. A 39-year-old man was stabbed in the Berlin-Mitte district at a subway station, and a 34-year-old man in the Neukölln district, which is mainly inhabited by migrants. The victim of the second attack is in life-threatening danger. Nothing is known about the nationalities of either of the perpetrators.
In a third incident, fifteen to thirty men are said to have gotten into a dispute with five other men. The attackers hit the men with stones and beer bottles, beat them and sprayed them with gas. One of the victims was also wounded with a stab to his shoulder blade.
Most of the perpetrators of violence in Berlin “are young, male and have a non-German background. This also applies to knife violence,” Barbara Slowik, the police commissioner of Berlin recently said in an interview.
The Charité hospital in Berlin said last week that the number of patients treated for stab wounds this year has already reached 50 to 55—a number they usually tend to in a whole year. According to police statistics, close to 13,844 knife-related attacks were committed last year throughout Germany, a significant increase compared to the 10,131 cases recorded a year earlier.
Police have registered an increasing number of knife attacks at railway stations: last year they recorded a total of 777 knife attacks, while in the first six months of this year the number has already reached 430. The majority of the perpetrators are “non-German.”
US Carrier Strike Group Rushed To The Middle East Prepared For Iran Attack
A US carrier strike group has been rushed to the Middle East as new Israeli intelligence suggests that Iran will launch an attack within the next few days. US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin ordered a […]
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The Pro-Family Movement is Winning in Europe, with Recent Victories in Poland, the UK and Italy
(LifeSiteNews) — It has been a good summer for pro-family forces in Europe.
First, on July 12, Poland’s Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s attempt to decriminalize abortion during the first three months of pregnancy failed after almost the entire caucus of the Polish People’s Party, the most conservative faction of his shaky coalition government, voted against it. Since his ascension to power last year, Tusk has been using the full force of the state to target conservatives in the media and the judiciary as well as his political opponents. He had promised to reverse the policies of the previous government, Law and Justice, by spearheading a rollback of Poland’s pro-life regime.
Thus far, he has failed. Abortion activists, who see Tusk’s shaky coalition as a golden opportunity to ramrod their agenda through, are livid. Thousands of protestors gathered, with activists screaming profane chants from a stage in front of parliament. Tusk had made his socially liberal agenda central to his bid for leadership, stating on X on July 10 that: “We will vote to decriminalize abortion. We will vote for civil partnerships as a government project, although not everyone was convinced. We’re done discussing, it’s time for decisions.” After the failed vote, a furious and shaken Tusk suspended two of his own MPs who had voted against decriminalization and dismissed another from the post of deputy minister.
Tusk will try again, of course. But he faces an uphill battle, because he cannot govern without conservatives in the coalition – and they are not eager to anger Poland’s pro-life majority. Abortion activists are urging Tusk to dismiss Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz of the Polish People’s Party from the position of deputy prime minister – but Kosiniak-Kamysz pointed out that in all of the polls, pushing an abortion agenda and LGBT rights ranked rock bottom as a voter priorities.
Then, on July 23, Italy’s constitutional court formally refused to recognize the so-called “non-binary” sexual identity, stating in a ruling that Italian law:
establishes the principle of correspondence between name and sex and that, therefore, only a legislative intervention could overcome or change this rule. Its clarification is based on the fact that the binary nature of human sexuality of man and woman characterizes the varied and most disparate realms of social life, governed by the legal system, such as family law, labor law, sport, and the civil state and that, therefore, the legal recognition of an alleged third non-binary gender would disrupt the entire Italian legal and social system in such a way as to be incompatible with the faculties and attributions of the Constitutional Court or of any judge.
In short, to create a “third gender” or recognize “non-binary” as a valid legal concept would transform the entire social and legal system of Italy. Again, LGBT activists saw the ruling as a significant setback, especially due to the fact that it contributes to a growing consensus in Europe that the transgender agenda in particular should be rejected.
On July 29, the high court of the United Kingdom dealt a devastating blow to transgender activists when they ruled that the emergency ban on puberty blockers implemented by the Tory government on May 29 in the wake of the Cass Review revealing the damage they cause to minors. As Mrs. Justice Lang wrote:
In my view, it was rational for the first defendant to decide that it was essential to adopt the emergency procedure to avoid serious danger to the health of children and young people who would otherwise be prescribed puberty blockers during that five- to six-month period. Under the emergency procedure, there is no requirement to hold a consultation procedure… In my judgment, the Cass review’s findings about the very substantial risks and very narrow benefits associated with the use of puberty blockers, and the recommendation that in future the NHS prescribing of puberty blockers to children and young people should only take place in a clinical trial, and not routinely, amounted to powerful scientific evidence in support of restrictions on the supply of puberty blockers on the grounds that they were potentially harmful.
This ruling followed a July 20 UK government report debunking claims by trans activists that the ban had caused a spike in the suicide rate—and actually accused trans activists of behaving irresponsibly in making such claims.
Add to that Bulgaria’s vote to ban LGBT propaganda in schools – which I covered in this space earlier – and it is clear that defeat is not a given, as LGBT activists and abortion advocates would like us to believe. These victories are extremely important, and the defeats they represent are perhaps even more so.
Sen. Cotton: China “Cultivated” Tim Walz
Senator Tom Cotton suggested China “cultivated” Minnesota Governor Tim Walz over a period of decades, as part of a broader strategy to gain influence over American politics.
In an interview with Shannon Bream on Fox News Sunday, Senator Cotton, a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, took Walz to task for his insistence that America and China “don’t need to have an adversarial relationship.”
“Tim Walz has a terrible record on China, just like Kamala Harris does. He’s consistently appeased and conciliated the Chinese Communist Party and has repeatedly said we don’t need to have an adversarial relationship with China, when China is insistant on have an adversarial relationship with the United States, because they want to replace us as the world’s dominant superpower” Cotton said.
“What the Chinese Communist Party did with Tim Walz going back 35 years is a classic example of how they cultivate younger, local state leaders, teachers and others to try to get mouth pieces in American politics and maybe one day hit it big if that person goes on to be say, a congressman or governor, or Vice Presidential nominee.
“This is why he needs to answer questions about his relationship with China, and why Kamala Harris needs to come out and answer questions too about what she would do as president.”
China is insistent on having an adversarial relationship with the United States because they want to replace us the world’s dominant super power.
— Tom Cotton (@SenTomCotton) August 11, 2024
Any wishful thinking otherwise is dangerously naive. pic.twitter.com/h7hs7sIyKB
In contrast to calls from Republicans for Walz to explain the nature and extent of his ties with China and the CCP, the mainstream media has attempted to put a positive spin on Walz’s long relationship with China, which comprises over 30 trips to the country across a period of four decades, including for his honeymoon. Walz and his wife led a number of school trips to China together while they were teachers in Nebraska.
The New York Times led yesterday with “Tim Walz’s long relationship with China defies easy stereotypes,” and Bloomberg said, “Tim Walz knows China. That’s good for the US.”
“That deep history of engagement with China reflects a lesser-known international dimension of the Democratic vice-presidential candidate,” according to the Times.
“If elected vice president, Mr. Walz would bring to the White House unusually extensive personal experience in China—a history that supporters say could be an asset at a time of volatile relations between Washington and Beijing.
“But the campaign has so far made little mention of Mr. Walz’s experience there, even as it has leaned into depictions of the Minnesota governor as an avuncular Midwestern dad, coach and teacher. And it has yet to lay out how Vice President Kamala Harris or Mr. Walz would handle China, which both the Biden and Trump administrations have treated with toughness.”
The Minnesota Governor has spoken before Congress on multiple occasions about the importance of expanding trade with China; although in recent years he has dropped earlier claims that economic growth would make China a more liberal nation.
Walz is also facing calls to explain misrepresentations about his military service, including his rank and record of deployments.
Newly resurfaced video from a hearing in 2008 shows Minnesota Governor Tim Walz implying heavily that he suffered PTSD from deployment to Afghanistan as part of Operation Enduring Freedom.
Walz was speaking to the family of a Gold Star veteran at the House Veterans Affairs Committee on Veterans and Mental Health when he made remarks that suggested he had personal experience of PTSD after serving in Operation Enduring Freedom in 2004 with the National Guard.
“I can tell you this, having been one of those that came back. We were in support of OEF [Operation Enduring Freedom]… when we came back, they showed us the horse whisperer and told us to be nice when we went home. And that was the extent of it. That was in 2004.”
Walz has been accused of “stolen valor” for inflating his rank and the importance of his operational deployments. Walz never took part in Operation Enduring Freedom, the name for US operations directly in and above Afghan territory, but was posted to Italy with the National Guard in a support role.
New Documents Show the FBI Implemented Nationwide Social Media Monitoring Ahead of the 2022 Midterms
America First Legal (AFL) has disclosed documents obtained through a lawsuit against the FBI and the Department of Justice (DOJ), accusing them of concealing federal records that detail government-sponsored censorship by the Biden-Harris administration before the 2022 midterm elections.
The documents revealed that the FBI’s National Election Command Post (NECP) had compiled lists of social media accounts posting what they considered “misinformation,” extending from New York to San Francisco. This included the Right Side Broadcasting Network, cited by Matt Taibbi as targeted for “additional action” by the FBI.
These lists were so extensive that they were compiled into Word documents “due to the volume of posts.” NECP, operating from the FBI Headquarters and aided by DOJ attorneys and liaisons from five non-DOJ agencies, was responsible for vetting the information and directing actions across various field offices. They focused not only on foreign threats but also on cyber intrusions and potential criminal violations linked to election law.
Domestically, accounts like “@RSBNetwork” were flagged for issues related to election law violations, seemingly unconnected to foreign influence or cyber threats. NECP specifically instructed the San Francisco field office to send “preservation letters” to maintain relevant user information until legal actions could be formally initiated.
The Inspector General’s report outlines the legal procedures the FBI might use to compel evidence production from third parties. These range from grand jury subpoenas for current subscriber information, including personal details and payment methods, to district court orders for historical data under the Electronic Communications Privacy Act. In more severe cases, the FBI might request a search warrant for detailed content or ongoing investigation data.
This pattern of surveillance and legal pressure reflects a broader governmental approach that views alleged “misinformation” as a law enforcement issue. This stance has led to significant concerns about free speech, especially given recent cases where individuals faced prosecution for online activities deemed misleading by authorities.
Tim Walz Left Eight Babies who Survived Botched Abortions to Die, Government Data Shows
The horrific pro-death policies of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, the official running mate of Vice President Kamala Harris, resulted in at least eight babies who survived the abortion process being left to die on the operating table, data from the Minnesota Government of Health shows.
Before Walz was installed as Minnesota’s governor, there was a law on the books that required abortion clinics to report all instances of failed abortions that resulted in the live birth of a baby. Such reporting required abortion “doctors” to reveal what actions were taken to preserve the life of the baby after birth, as well as whether or not the baby survived.
Walz has since abolished that reporting requirement. Under his leadership, abortion clinics in Minnesota no longer even have to keep track of born-alive babies who survive abortions. This means that countless babies will now be slaughtered after birth because the abortion procedure failed to murder them while they were still in the womb.
(Related: Did you know that Kamala Harris wants to abolish ICE, ban natural gas fracking and offshore oil drilling, defund the police, and provide taxpayer-funded healthcare to illegal aliens?)
The political party of death
We know from the data that is still being reported under the reporting law that at least eight babies who survived the abortion process were left to die without any care. Five such babies were reported this way between Jan. 1, 2021, and Dec. 31, 2021.
“No measures were taken to help the first baby, who reportedly had ‘fetal anomalies’ that resulted ‘in death shortly after delivery,’” writes Mary Margaret Olohan for LifeNews.com. “Two of the babies were given ‘comfort care measures’ as they died. No measures were taken to ‘preserve life’ of the last two babies, who were previable.”
While there were no reported cases of live-birth babies being left to die in 2020, another three such cases were reported between Jan. 1, 2019, and Dec. 31, 2019.
“The first baby reportedly had ‘fetal anomalies’ but also had ‘residual cardiac activity’ for two minutes, yet no efforts were taken to preserve that baby’s life, and ‘the infant did not survive,’” Olohan explains. “The second baby died while ‘comfort care measures’ were provided. The third baby was previable and did not receive any attempts to preserve his or her life.
In May 2023, Walz repealed the bipartisan reporting requirement for survived abortions, stripping Minnesota of having to care for and preserve the “life and health” of babies who are born following a failed abortion.
This is a good fit for Kamala whose position on abortion, also known as baby murder, is that it should be allowed to happen at any time, even after a baby is born – this is known as infanticide.
Former President Donald Trump warned about this when he stated publicly that some states have legislation on the books “where you can execute the baby after birth.” A CNN “fact check” claims that Trump’s claim is false, but the proof is clear as day for anyone willing to see it.
“Post-birth abortion is real and Harris-Walz support it,” tweeted The Heritage Foundation’s Roger Severino. “At least 5 babies were born alive after botched abortions and left to die under Walz’s watch. Two of these struggling babies were given ‘comfort care’ instead of medical care allegedly in violation of state law.”
“How did Walz respond? By repealing the very law exposing and outlawing this horror and replacing it with abortion on-demand on the front end, and infanticide on the back end.”
The latest news about the pro-death policies of Walz, Kamala, and the rest of the Democrat Party can be found at Evil.news.